New York Magazine The CUT - September 2025

MY FAVORITE LOOK I wore this summer wasn’t the powder-blue vintage dress I panic-ordered on the RealReal to relaunch our beauty vertical at Cannes Lions or the olive-green peekaboo Hanifa maxi I wore onstage to interview Tracee Ellis Ross at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. No, it was the white lamé mask and jumpsuit complemented by a silver saber that I wore in a sweaty, non-air-conditioned Upper East Side gym on a random Wednesday. When I was growing up in Wisconsin, the only fencing I saw was Lindsay Lohan facing off against herself in The Parent Trap. But part of what has kept me going as an editor is following my curiosity instead of staying behind my phone and consuming whatever other people find interesting. My friends and…

Two May Be Better Than One These slinky Miu Miu socks are thin enough that layering them creates a barely there contrast—no lumpy silhouettes in sight. Rock the Color Block Translucent pink socks slipped on top of purple tights create depth without sacrificing sleekness, and the pointed Gucci mules add New Wave spunk. Get Into Step A romantic pair of Ferragamo heels makes us want to break out our best bachata. Add black fishnets and the dance floor won’t know what’s coming. Layer Fishnets With Lace When tucked under these girlie Chanel boots, the wide white netting helps elongate the leg. Cabaret, anyone? Cozy Can Still Look Cool These McQueen boots are runway showstoppers that need grounding in real life. A Flashdance-y knit sock brings the rock-star heels down to…

Women dedicate tens of thousands of dollars a year to achieving the “Tracy Anderson body,” or “lean curves in the right places,” as the celebrity fitness instructor puts it. Now, she’s learning to live with aging. “I see a lot of people doing a lot of injections and getting a lot of beautiful face-lifts,” Anderson says, but she’s holding out—at least for now. “We’ve been dysfunctionally programmed to judge beauty. I’m really tired of hearing about jowls,” she says. Here, the beauty regimen she swears by. A.M. Routine I wake up at seven. I’m very fortunate to live in different beautiful places. Right now, my view in the morning is these giant windows that look out on the mountains of Big Sky Country in Montana. I like snuggles, and it…

I WOULDN’T SAY I WAS MISERABLE walking into the new Dior Spa on 57th and Madison, but after traveling nine days straight on four planes through two time zones, I was definitely exhausted. I was there to try a new facial, the $550 Golden Aura, which promises to boost circulation and oxygen, among other virtues, things New Yorkers probably need. But I was really excited to try the $170 “Happiness Boost.” Developed with Dr. François Duforez, a sleep specialist based in Paris, the treatment uses light therapy to provide you with extra serotonin and dopamine, things New Yorkers most certainly need. As soon as I pulled the weighted blanket over my body, the facialist turned on what the spa calls an “LED-studded sky,” which is like a tray ceiling that…

IF YOU THINK THE NAME of Tom Ford’s new Private Blend fragrance, Oud Voyager, sounds vaguely sci-fi, you’re on the right track. Created by Dominique Ropion, a perfumer best known for masterminding Frédéric Malle’s Carnal Flower, the scent is being marketed as a “futuristic floral.” Intrigued? So were we. What does Oud Voyager smell like? The leading scent is oud, a rare resin notorious for its tendency to dominate a perfume and skew masculine. But in this fragrance, the other notes—fresh peony and green-floral geranium—are blended such that each is equally important, producing a genderless, seasonless scent. “It’s oud as you’ve never experienced it: radiant, sculptural, and dimensional,” says Ropion. What makes it futuristic? The fragrance has a specific “living red peony” note that was created using what perfumers (rather…

A LITTLE OVER A DECADE AGO, Anne Hathaway’s public persona was in crisis. She had starred in The Princess Diaries and won an Oscar for Les Misérables but was far from being the stylish star of The Devil Wears Prada 2, the most talked-about film in fashion these days. Audiences found her grating, a try-hard theater kid. The internet piled on when she was cast as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises because she wasn’t considered sexy enough. Caustic think pieces speculated about why she was so despised. Then, in 2019, Hathaway met Erin Walsh. A sought-after stylist, Walsh rose from a fashion assistant at Vogue to dressing everyone from Sarah Jessica Parker to Timothée Chalamet. Her client Kerry Washington has suggested that her red-carpet revamp elevated her professional profile.…